Re: KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ip_finish_output

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed Mar 06 2024 - 05:42:01 EST


On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:36 AM Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM xingwei lee <xrivendell7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello, I found a new bug titled "KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in
> > > ip_finish_output” or “KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_to_full_sk" and
> > > confirmed it in the latest net and net-next branch. After my simple
> > > analysis, it may be related to the net/rose or AF_PACKET/PF_PACKET
> > > socket.
> >
> > I already had a syzbot report for this issue, thanks.
> >
> > Adding Florian to the discussion.
> > The issue is cause by ip defrag layer, which calls skb_orphan()
> > These were my notes, I had little time to work on it so far.
>
> > Calling ip_defrag() in output path is also implying skb_orphan(),
> > which is buggy because output path relies on sk not disappearing.
>
> Ugh. Thanks for your annotations and notes, this is very helpful.
>
> ipvlan (and two spots in ip_output.c do):
>
> err = ip_local_out(net, skb->sk, skb);
>
> so skb->sk gets propagated down to __ip_finish_output(), long
> after connrack defrag has called skb_orphan().
>
> No idea yet how to fix it,

My plan was to refine "inet: frag: Always orphan skbs inside
ip_defrag()" and only do the skb_orphan()
for skb added to a frag_list.

The head skb would keep a reference to the socket.